Mother. Nurse. Gold-digger. Cause célèbre. When Daisy de Melker stood trial in 1932, accused of poisoning her son and two husbands, the public couldn’t get enough of her. Crowds gathered outside court baying for blood, and she waved to them like a celebrity.

A dirty, grimy, graffiti-stained tenement popular with a group of local drug dealers is where the author found a cheap apartment when he first moved to New York City. Then things went terribly wrong.

A wonderfully quirky tale about the people in New York City whose mission is to find treasure … in what other people throw away.

More than thirty murders, nine fugitives, and one man obsessed by the search for justice. In this thrilling and fascinating true account of Frank Bender and his work, The Girl with the Crooked Nose draws readers into the cases that he has solved, the intricacies of his art, the colourful characters he encounters, and the personal cost of his strange obsession.

Ever thought of moving to a new country? Ted Botha and Jenni Baxter did – him to New York, her to Sydney, Australia. Business emails quickly turned to friendship, despite the thousands of miles that divided them, and they soon realised that they were going through the same trials and tribulations unique to expatriates.

A story of travel and self-discovery through Africa, Apartheid in my Rucksack unfolds just as apartheid was ending.

Reminiscent of Water for Elephants and The Life of Pi, The Animal Lover takes you on a journey through past and present you won’t quickly forget.